Date and Time Format Codes

The date and time format codes come straight from the C programming language conventions and can be used to format date and time text variables via Draw->Text, in print area captions via File->Print Layout, and in the naming format of new movie clips via Edit->Setup->General.

Examples of VIS variables with formatting:

|date%B %#d, %Y| April 5, 1999

|time%#I:%M %p| 3:53 PM

%a Abbreviated weekday name

%A Full weekday name

%b Abbreviated month name

%B Full month name

%c Date and time representation appropriate for locale

%d Day of month as decimal number (01 31)

%H Hour in 24-hour format (00 23)

%I Hour in 12-hour format (01 12)

%j Day of year as decimal number (001 366)

%m Month as decimal number (01 12)

%M Minute as decimal number (00 59)

%p Current locale's A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock

%S Second as decimal number (00 59)

%U Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 51)

%w Weekday as decimal number (0 6; Sunday is 0)

%W Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 51)

%x Date representation for current locale

%X Time representation for current locale

%y Year without century, as decimal number (00 99)

%Y Year with century, as decimal number

%z, %Z Time-zone name or abbreviation; no characters if time zone is unknown

%% Percent sign

The # flag may prefix any formatting code. In that case, the meaning of the format code is changed as follows.

%#a, %#A, %#b, %#B, %#p, %#X, %#z, %#Z, %#% ----- # flag is ignored.

%#c ----- Long date and time representation, appropriate for current locale. For example: "Tuesday, March 14, 1995, 12:41:29".

%#x ----- Long date representation, appropriate to current locale. For example: "Tuesday, March 14, 1995".

%#d, %#H, %#I, %#j, %#m, %#M, %#S, %#U, %#w, %#W, %#y, %#Y ----- Remove leading zeros